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equimania

equimania

About Me


Old enough to retread . . . .
Retired (early) and living in New York, but I spend a lot of time in Texas and North Carolina. (Don't ask me why. If I have to explain, You wouldn't understand)
Live music is a big part of my life. It has been since I saw Cream, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, etc., etc., while living in San Francisco in 1967-68.
Today my taste runs toward Americana, folk, roots, blues, jazz and country (in pretty much that order). I love live music, and I love to photograph live shows. I do this just for fun. You can check out some of my pictures from shows I have photographed here:
Equimania Photo Gallery
Or if that link does not work, cut and paste this address into the address line of your browser:
http://picasaweb.google.com/equimania
I hope you like the offerings. Feel free to leave comments; good, bad or indifferent.
Mark

My Interests

Motorcycles, music, photography, camping and best when all four are blended in some way.

I'd like to meet:


Second Annual Cicada Festival will be held in St Catharines, Ontario, on July 4th to 6th, 2008. Come, see lots of great singer/songriters and have a beautiful weekend camping on the shores of Lake Ontario, just minutes from beautiful Niagara Falls. Click the link below to see more.

The 2008 line-up includes (and more to be announced):

Adam Carroll
Alun Piggins & the Quitters
AntiQs
Barnhouse Static
Black Berry Blossoms
Brock Zeman & Dan Walsh
Danielle Talamini
Don Couchie & the Spirit of Bluegrass
Done Me Wrongs
Erick von Erick
Indio Saravanja
Jesse T Reid
Joe Gee
Joe Lipinski Band
Mark Jungers & The Whistling Mules
Marty Allen Band
Mike Branton Band
Mike Lynch
Peace River
Roger Marin Band
Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller
Scott Normandy

Music:


I love to photograph live shows of the artists whose music I like. To view pictures of some of these shows in my on-line photo gallery, go here:

Equimania Photo Gallery

Also, the pictures below should link to an album of photos of that artist. These are just a few of the artists depicted in my gallery. In addition to those linked below, some others shown in my gallery are:

Joy Adler
Nell Bryden
Matraca Berg
The Bowmans
Sarah Buxton
Laura Cheadle
Ann Courtney and the Late Bloomers
Crescent and Frost
The Dedringers
Sasha Dobson
Emily Easterly
Ana Egge
Susan Enan
Charlie Faye
Jonh Foti
Melody Gardot
Danielle Gasparro
Elana James
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Richard Julian
Jamie Leonhart
Amy Loftus
Pete and J
Rachel Loshak
Roger Marin
Jeff Miller
Red Molly
Scott Nolan
Odetta
Getchen Peters
Carrie Rodriguez
Jenny Scheinman
Leah Siegel
Ricky Stein
Gordie Tentrees
John Vanderslice
Graham Weber
Lizzie West
Joe Whyte
Alexa Wilding
Wild-Wood
Graham Wilkinson
Kelly Willis

Here are a few shots of a breathtaking performance by the stunningly beautiful Tift Merritt.

Tift Merritt 11-16-07

Here you can see a few pictures from Roger Marin's Cicada Fest, held in Niagara Falls, ON, August 24-26. Some awesome musicians performed over the weekend. If a weekend of camping and some of the best singer-songwriters around appeals to you, make plans now to come to the 2008 festival. For more information, check here:

Cicada Fest 2007

Here are a few pictures of the lovely Kelley McRae at New York's Mercury Lounge, July 16, 2007. Enjoy.

Kelley McRae

Here are a few pix of Graham Wilkinson and friends. Enjoy. Many more to come in this album.

Graham Wilkinson, July 4, 2007

Here are a few pix of Romi Mayes performing at C'est What, as a part of North by Northeast festival, in Toronto, ON, June 8, 2007. Enjoy. I certainly did!

Romi Mayes North by Northeast

This is John Evans at North by Northeast in Toronto, June 8, 2007. Notice he is playing Romi's guitar. Romi shared the stage with John for a few tunes. It's ok though, since Romi played brushes on a beer box and sang harmony vocals to add another dimension to John's already awesome music.

John Evans at North by Northeast

Here are a few pictures of Sasha Dobson from a couple of different venues, including at the Living Room in New York on April 30, 2007. She is an awesome performer. Go see her shows and buy her CD, Modern Love. Uh, she's not only easy on the ears, she's easy on the eyes, too.

Sasha Dobson

To see my pictures from Hayes Carll's Stingaree Music Festival, April 13-15, 2007, Crystal Beach, TX, go to my full album. Lots of artists and lots of pix there.

Stingaree Music Festival 2007

Go to my album to see photos of Hayes Carll and the Gulf Coast Orchestra at Jack Ingram's RamFest IV, Floore's Country Store, Helotes, TX, 9/30/06.

Hayes Carll at Jack Ingram's Ramfest IV, Helotes, TX

To see pictures of Mark Jungers Band, 9/28/06, at Gruene Hall, Gruene, TX, go to my album.

Mark Jungers Band at Gruene Hall

Movies:

Too many to list, but for starters anything by the Coen brothers, Neil LaBute, Tom DiCillo, or Jim Jarmusch. Also anything with John Turtoro or Catherine Keener.

Television:

What's that?

Books:

Anything by John Irving; Ann Tyler; Bobbie Ann Mason; short stories, especially Alice Munroe and Ethan Canin

Heroes:

Gilles Villeneuve, Wavy Gravy